page_title: Toulon arsenal
section_title: Main infrastructures
hierarchical_section_title: Toulon arsenal / Main infrastructures
caption_attribution_description: Toulon Naval Museum. Sculptures de Jean-Michel Verdiguier (1706-1796) et de Maucord.
context_page_description: The military port of Toulon is the principal base of the French Navy and the first naval base in Europe by size, sited in the city of Toulon. It holds most of France's force d'action navale, comprising the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle as well as its nuclear attack submarines, in total more than 70% of the tonnage of the French Navy. About 20,000 military and civilians work at the base
context_section_description: The military base is divided into four main zones, each with their own access to the sea.  From east to west these are:
  Castigneau ;
  Malbousquet ;
  Missiessy ;
  Milhaud.
  The first has two main entrances :
  next to the civilian port - the main gate, adjoining the musée de la marine whose façade, classed as a monument historique, is the predecessor to this new gate.  The new gate is located next to the arsenal's quai d'honneur and the monumental façade of the Mediterranean maritime préfecture, flanked by cannons and gilding.
  at the west entrance to Toulon town-centre - more practical than the other entrance (it is less than 200m from an autoroute exit onto four roads), it ensures freight and civil and military convoys from the base can flow freely.
  The three other gates are secondary and little used, though still heavily guarded.  To the extreme west in the communes of La Seyne-sur-Mer and Ollioules the military base is in contact with the commercial port of Brégaillon, connected to national and regional networks for the supply of artillery munitions and other supplies.
  The arsenal du Mourillon, next to the roadstead, is directly accessible via the north arsenal which housed a submarine base until 1945.  The south arsenal is accessed by the small slipway of Le Mourillon beside the now-disappeared torpedo factory.
caption: The Triumphal Entrance of the Arsenal of Toulon (1738), now the Naval Museum
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